Empowering Artists 2011

3,247 20 Creative submissions for the 2012 Capital Creative Capital grants in Visual Project Arts and Film/ Video Premieres at venues across the country

Artists showed their work in prestigious festivals and were honored with major fellowships: 9 screenings at the Sundance Film Festival 25+ artists at the and Miami Art Fairs 3 artists at the Venice Biennale 4 PRODUCTIONS AT the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival 5 Guggenheim Fellowships 3 Prix Ars Electronica Awards 2 TED GLOBAL presenters

778 artists participated in the Professional Development Program through 35 Workshops in 27 cities 46 New Creative Capital grants to be announced in early 2012, bringing our total to 372 Supported Projects!

2011 Year End Report What’s inside Letter from Ruby

What an incredible year! Creative Capital dived headfirst into its second Artist Milestones Project Premieres decade of providing financial and advisory support to artists across the country, starting with our open grant application process, new services for grantees, Our grantees are incredible artists Twenty Creative Capital-supported subsidized Professional Development Program (PDP) workshops and more. whose work has been rewarded projects in Emerging Fields, I’m proud to say that we have helped more artists through PDP, received a with prominent awards, fellowships Film/Video, Literature, Performing near-record number of submissions to our grant programs and piloted more and exhibitions throughout the year. Arts and Visual Arts premiered in new services than ever before. Our grantees have accomplished a great deal This section highlights important 2011. as well: they have published books, opened major exhibitions, won film festival achievements by our grantees. awards, and received countless accolades and fellowships. Festivals & Conferences In 2011, we have taken many steps to make ourselves a stronger organization, PDP including growing our board of directors, expanding our systems to better serve Our staff and grantees presented, artists and engaging an incredible fleet of evaluators for our grantmaking process. Our Professional Development exhibited and participated in some Program (PDP) offered pilot of the world’s biggest and most Most importantly, though, we’ve expanded our artist services significantly this workshops and reached new influential festivals, fairs and year, making changes that will benefit current, future and “alumni” grantees communities in 2011. With the conferences in 2011. (whose Creative Capital-supported projects have already premiered). Our support of the Kresge Foundation, enhanced services include more structured interaction among grantees; this was our second year of assigning new grantees to committed mentor teams; and promoting grantee offering Workshop Subsidy Grants, Grantmaking access to phone-in clinics, online tools and other resources that can make which were provided to 25 partner a valuable difference in their careers. New grantees will be better prepared to take organizations across the country. Over the past 12 years, Creative advantage of the resources that we offer, and alumni grantees will have access to Capital has awarded grants to 326 resources they need to continue to succeed in fulfilling their goals. projects representing 406 artists. Celebrations In February 2011, we opened This report takes you through the past year as seen through our eyes: what our grant application to artists our grantees have accomplished, what we’ve helped them do and what we’ve If you know Creative Capital, you nationwide, beginning the process achieved with the help of our essential supporters. know we’re not all work and no fun. of selecting our 2012 grantees in This year we had a lot to celebrate, Film/Video and Visual Arts. Teams from our second annual Benefit & of national arts professionals

Auction to a special gathering in and artists served as readers, Miami, and we’re proud to share evaluators and panelists to review these events with you. artists’ submissions. Ruby Lerner President & Executive Director, Creative Capital

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable each project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 326 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 3,700 artists in more than 50 communities around the country through its Professional Development Program.

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Grantmaking Artist Milestones Deb Olin Unferth (2009 Literature) premieres Revolution: Creative Capital staff travel Paul Vanouse presents his Creative The Year I Fell in Love and Went the country hosting Information Capital project, Latent Figure Protocol, to Join the War, a memoir that Sessions for artists interested at Transmediale Festival in Berlin. receives reviews and features in in applying for the 2012 round of BOOKFORUM, Publisher’s Weekly, grants. More than 1,200 artists Robert Karimi is in residence at the New York Times and the Los nationwide take part in these Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis to Angeles Times. sessions. develop his Creative Capital project, The Cooking Show. Festivals & Conferences Project Premieres Chris Doyle’s solo exhibition at Sam Lee Gallery in Los Angeles At the College Art Association Daniel Alexander Jones (2000 The Sundance Film Festival is opens to a rave review in the Conference in NYC, Sean Elwood, Performing Arts) premieres Jomama teeming with Creative Capital Los Angeles Times. Creative Capital’s Director of Jones * Radiate at SoHo Rep, NYC. grantees! Marshall Curry and Programs & Initiatives, leads a Sam Cullman, Braden King, Lynn Mason Bates and Anne Patterson panel discussion in which grantees Cauleen Smith (2008 Film/Video) Hershman Leeson, Billy Luther revive their Creative Capital project, Hasan Elahi, Laura Poitras and presents Remote Viewing at and Deke Weaver present their Mercury Soul, at the New World Kerry Skarbakka discuss putting The Kitchen, NYC. Creative Capital-funded projects, Symphony in Miami. their personal safety at risk to and alumni grantees Jem Cohen, create their work. Los Angeles Poverty Department Miranda July and Christopher Luca Buvoli wins the Barnett and (2009 Performing Arts) premieres Munch present films as well. Annalee Newman Award. State of Incarceration at Highways Banker White is selected as a Grantmaking Performance Space, Santa Monica. Sundance Documentary Fund Brent Green’s Gravity Was Fellow for 2011. Everywhere Back Then screens For the 2012 Visual Arts and Jennie C. Jones (2008 Visual Arts) at The Kitchen in NYC and the Film/Video grants, Creative exhibits Counterpoint at Yerba Buena Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Capital begins accepting Letters Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Artist Milestones of Inquiry from artists nationwide.

Alan Gilbert’s (2006 Literature) Trimpin begins his residency at Late in the Antenna Fields is Stanford University to complete PDP published by Futurepoem. the development of his Creative Capital project, The Gurs Zyklus, At the Latino Arts Network in Los a performance that combines Angeles, Creative Capital pilots a instrumental and vocal music, new Spanish-language workshop, PDP sculpture, and spoken word. Taller Profesional de Desarollo Para Artistas, to help bicultural artists Creative Capital presents a Billy Luther opens the exhibition navigate the challenges of presenting workshop for 24 artists in GRAB at the Smithsonian their work. PDP also presents Jacksonville, with the Florida National Museum of the workshops in Pittsburgh and NYC. Division of Cultural Affairs. American Indian in New York.

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PDP Artist Milestones

Real Community Engagement, a Lisa D’Amour of PearlDamour is a new workshop about how to build 2011 Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize support for socially engaged art for Drama for her play Detroit, projects, is piloted at Aljira, A Center which is scheduled for a Broadway for Contemporary Art, in Newark, NJ. run in 2012. More workshops in Las Vegas and Reno with the Nevada Arts Council, Rebecca Solnit’s Creative California College of the Arts Capital project, Infinite City: A San in San Francisco, the Louisiana Francisco Atlas, wins the Northern Division of the Arts in Baton Rouge California Book Award for Creative and the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Nonfiction. Festivals & Conferences Richard Pell exhibits elements of Sam Van Aken has a solo show Project Premieres his Center for PostNatural History with Ronald Feldman Fine Arts at Trinity College in Dublin, , at the Armory Show in NYC. Ledoh’s (2006 Performing Arts) and at the Royal Institute of Naeem Mohaiemen is included COLORMEAMERICA, a Butoh- Science in Melbourne, Australia. at the Sharjah Biennial in the based multimedia performance United Arab Emirates. project, has its Creative Capital- Heidi Latsky Dance performs their supported premiere at the Joyce Creative Capital project, GIMP, SoHo in NYC. at International CREA Festival in Rude Mechs’ (2006 Performing Kathmandu, Nepal. Arts) play, The Method Gun, has its Artist Milestones Creative Capital-supported premiere President Ruby Lerner is Eve Sussman exhibits an element at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC. Mark Shepard is a fellow and honored by ArtTable, New York’s of her Creative Capital project Thanks in part to Creative Capital Beatriz da Costa is a resident at leadership organization for women in Space. About a Dream at the Artist Retreats and the guidance Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in the visual arts, as part of their Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, . of our staff, Rude Mechs go on in NYC. 30th Anniversary Celebration. to perform The Method Gun at Ruby is among 30 women in the the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women arts honored at ArtTable’s gala and the Time-Based Art Festival Art Revolution receives it first New at The Museum of Modern Art. (Portland, OR) in the fall. York screening at The Museum of Modern Art. PDP Grantmaking Richard Move and Lisa Kron perform in Martha@... The 1963 PDP presents workshops at the 3,247 Letters of Inquiry are Interview at Dance Theater Alliance of Artist Communities received from artists in all 50 Workshop to rave reviews in the in Providence, at DiverseWorks states and DC for the 2012 Film/ New York Times and other national in Houston and at Beet Street in Video and Visual Arts grants. publications. Fort Collins, CO.

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Project Premieres The Multi-Arts Production Fund Jennifer Fox raises more Artist Milestones (MAP Fund) selects its 40 grantees than $150,000 for her film My Futurefarmers (2009 Emerging for 2011: 11 music-based works, 12 Reincarnation on Kickstarter.com, Young Jean Lee, Jennifer and Fields) present Shoemaker’s dance-based projects and 17 theater- the most successful campaign for Kevin McCoy, Stephen Vitiello Dialogues at the Solomon R. based works. The projects include any finished film in Kickstarter’s and Marina Zurkow receive Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Zero Cost House by Pig Iron Theatre history! Creative Capital has built Guggenheim Fellowships! This Company and Bus Stop Dreaming, partnerships with the crowdfunding brings the total number of Trimpin (2008 Visual Arts) premieres an interdisciplinary collaboration sites Kickstarter, USA Projects and grantees to win this prestigious The Gurs Zyklus at Stanford Lively between Jason Aragon and Denise Indigogo to expand opportunities award to 46. Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Uyehara. The next MAP grants will for grantees’ projects. be announced in March 2012! Liz Cohen and Mark Newport are recipients of Kresge Fellowships Project Premieres for Visual Arts.

Creative Capital premieres in New Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo York City: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s of Lead Pencil Studio present (2008 Film/Video) !Women Art Extended Collapse at the Scottsdale Revolution and Marshall Curry and Museum of Contemporary Art. Sam Cullman’s (2008 Film/Video) If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Celebrations Liberation Front, both at the IFC Grantmaking Center; Billy Luther’s (2008 Film/ Creative Capital hosts its Benefit Video) screening of GRAB at the 682 proposed projects advance to & Auction at the beautiful home National Museum of the American the Application phase. of art collector and new board Indian; PearlDamour’s (2009 member Paige West. The evening Performing Arts) How to Build a is emceed by Jomama Jones and Forest at the Kitchen; and Kenseth SuttonBeresCuller create a custom Armstead’s (2008 Film/Video) puzzle for attendees to piece exhibition, Spook™: INVOCATION, at together throughout the party. LMAKprojects. On the West Coast, Anayansi Prado (2008 Film/Video) presents Paraiso for Sale at the Cory Arcangel’s exhibition Pro Los Angeles Film Festival. Tools at The Whitney Museum PDP of American Art in NYC attracts Festivals & Conferences feature articles in the New York PDP presents two pilots—a Spanish- PDP Times, New York Magazine and The language workshop at the National Shih Chieh Huang and Auriea New Yorker. The works in Pro Tools Association of Latino Independent 66 artists are served through Harvey and Michael Samyn show will be part of his Creative Capital Producers in San Juan, Puerto Rico, workshops at the Arts work at the Venice Biennale. project, D.I.Y.W.I.K.I., an open-source and Real Community Engagement Council, the Florida Division of Los Angeles Poverty Department’s website and book about his media with Creative Time in NYC—and Cultural Affairs in Pensacola State of Incarceration is presented intervention and hacking. a workshop at The Field in NYC. and Arthouse in Austin, TX. at the RADAR LA Festival.

8 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 Year End Report 9 July/August September

The Creative Capital | Warhol Creative Capital returns to the Louisville IdeaFestival for a presentation with Foundation Arts Writers Ruby Lerner and grantees Erika Blumenfeld, Shih Chieh Huang, Richard Program awards project-based Pell, Mark Shepard and Pamela Z. In response to their inspiring talks, the grants to writers whose work artists receive a standing ovation from the crowd. Ruby’s presentation details addresses contemporary how Creative Capital’s unique method of support, combining funds and career visual art. The Program’s first development services, can be an important engine for the arts nationally. convening in Philadelphia brings together more than 100 writers, curators, presenters, journalists, Grantmaking academics and other friends to meet and discuss issues facing 201 of the proposed projects contemporary arts writers. The are chosen by evaluators to 2011 Arts Writers Grants will be advance to the final phase of the announced in December! application process: panel review. ARTIST MILESTONES

Laura Poitras’s Creative Capital FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES Project Premieres project, The Oath, airs for the second time on PBS’s P.O.V. Grantees Jae Rhim Lee and Hasan In NYC, Elena del Rivero (2001 Elahi present at TEDGlobal2011 in Visual Arts) exhibits [Swi:t] Home: Kalup Linzy performs in Four Saints Edinburgh, Scotland. A CHANT at the New Museum, and in Three Acts: An Opera Installation at Eve Sussman (2008 Visual Arts) Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in SF. presents whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir at Cristin Tierney Gallery. Secos & Franco Mondini-Ruiz presents Dulce: Mojados (2009 Performing Arts) Bisque Without Borders at Arizona present Border Trip[tych] at MACLA/ State University Art Museum, Tempe. Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana in San Jose, CA. PDP Karolina Sobecka and Karyn Olivier are awarded fellowships 72 artists participate in workshops from the New York Foundation for FESTIVALS & CONFERENCES this month at ArtServe Michigan the Arts. in Detroit and Miami Dade Creative Capital grantees present Department of Cultural Affairs. Golan Levin’s work is featured at the Walker Art Center Performing in Talk To Me at The Museum of The second annual Artists Arts Series, Philadelphia Live Arts Modern Art, NYC. Summer Institute, created by PDP Festival, Time-Based Art Festival and the Lower Manhattan Cultural and Singapore Film Festival. Rachel Mayeri, Richard Pell and Council, brings 55 New York artists Mark Shepard are honored with together for a five-day intensive Appalshop, founded by grantee awards at the Prix Ars Electronica professional development program Nick Szuberla, is a presenter at International Competition for that builds skills, community and The Creative Time Summit: “Living CyberArts in Linz, Austria. confidence among the artists. as Form.”

10 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 Year End Report 11 September (cont.) October

ARTIST MILESTONES The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announces the Doris Duke Performing Artists Initiative, a new ten-year, $50 million program. The Kevin Jerome Everson has solo film Braden King’s HERE opens the initiative includes a residency program as well as two fellowship programs exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Milan Film Festival in Milan, . that will support individual artists in contemporary dance, theater and jazz American Art, which receives a rave for extended professional and artistic development. Creative Capital will review in the New York Times. Jae Rhim Lee exhibits Infinity Burial serve as DDCF’s primary partner in working with artists in the fellowship Project at the MAK Center for Art + programs to realize and maximize the use of their grants. The fellowship Shih Chieh Huang exhibits his Architecture in Los Angeles. programs will select and support 200 artists through grants and access Creative Capital project, EX-SE-10, to Creative Capital’s professional development services. The grants focus at Smithsonian Natural History Franco Mondini-Ruiz presents on artists’ long-term needs for exploration and research, which are unmet Museum in Washington, DC. Poodles & Pastries (And Other by traditional project-by-project support. Additional funds will be available Important Matters) at Oklahoma to match contributions to artists’ retirement accounts. Edgar Arceneaux’s work is City Museum of Art. featured in a solo exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Elena del Rivero exhibits PROJECT PREMIERE in Basel, Switzerland. cedarliberty, her collaboration with fellow Creative Capital grantee Pablo Helguera’s (2005 Visual In New York, Jennie C. Jones has Leslie McCleave, in Remembering Arts) School of PanAmerican Unrest a solo show at The Kitchen; Nick 9/11 at the International Center Anthology is published by Jorge Cave is on view at Jack Shainman of Photography, New York. Pinto Books, with a release party Gallery; Sanford Biggers opens at Cue Foundation in NYC. solo exhibitions at The Brooklyn Sheryl Oring presents Collective Museum of Art and Sculpture Memory, an interactive performance Center; and Mary Lucier, Jem in NYC’s Bryant Park. Cohen and Stephen Vitiello are included in September 11 Liz Cohen exhibits in AutoBody at exhibition at MoMA PS1. Ballroom Marfa in Texas. ARTIST MILESTONES

Nick Cave, Kalup Linzy, Rodney McMillian and William Pope.L “[Creative Capital’s support] exhibit in 30 Americans at the remains CENTRAL to the Corcoran in DC. development of our piece, the most prestigious ‘seed’ to attract Sanford Biggers is in conversation other funding, and the source with Mos Def and Marcus of support in areas ranging PDP Samuelsson at the Brooklyn from legal advice to production Museum in conjunction with his expenses. We would have not PDP workshops with the North solo exhibition Sweet Funk—An been able to do this without you!” Carolina Arts Council in Raleigh, Introspective. with Delaware Division of the Arts Secos & Mojados in Dover and Alternate Roots in Danny Hoch stars in Relatively (2009 Performing Arts) Atlanta reach a total of 78 artists. Speaking on Broadway.

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Panelists review 201 finalists Creative Capital joins grantees for Film/Video and Visual Arts and other friends at the Miami art grants. Late in the month, all 46 fairs! We celebrate with special new Film/Video and Visual Arts programming at SEVEN, where grantees are notified that they a number of grantees have work will be joining Creative Capital’s on view, including an installation 2012 grantee class! We finish of Brian Knep’s Healing Pool and planning the January orientation works by Kelly Heaton and Jennifer for grantees, which will get them and Kevin McCoy, among others. ARTIST MILESTONES acquainted with the enhanced array ARTIST MILESTONES of artist services we provide. Suzan Pitt’s El Doctor is featured PDP Stephanie Rothenberg presents in Suzan Pitt and Jim Trainor: A Best Practices in Banana Time at Conversation in Light and Darkness PDP presents two workshops, in MASS MoCA in conjunction with at REDCAT in Los Angeles. cooperation with the City of Saxman, the exhibition The Workers. Alaska, and the City of San Diego Maria Elena Gonzalez has solo Commission for Arts and Culture. Sharon Lockhart’s Lunch Break show at Galerie Gisele Linder in ongoing at the San Francisco Switzerland. Museum of Modern Art.

George Legrady has solo Kristina Wong showcases her exhibition Refraction at Edward new work, CAT LADY, in Tampa. Cella Gallery in Los Angeles.

Rachel Mayeri gives lecture Naeem Mohaiemen screens video and screens new project Primate excerpt from his Creative Capital- Cinema: Apes as Family at supported project at the Tate PDP Nottingham Contemporary in Modern, London. England. 48 artists participate in PDP Hasan Elahi presents at TEDx workshops this month, at Portland Naomi Uman presents The Brussels in Belgium. Institute of Contemporary Art Ukranian Time Machine at in Oregon and Broward Cultural REDCAT in Los Angeles. In NYC, Taylor Mac performs Division in Fort Lauderdale. at Joe’s Pub, and Bill Morrison presents collaborative film/music performance The Great Flood Cesar Cornejo’s (2009 Emerging Fields) Puno Museum of Contemporary with Bill Frisell at Carnegie Hall’s Art premieres with Galeria Lucia de la Puente at Art Basel Miami Beach. Zankel Hall. Cornejo’s project redefines the museum as an institution based in the community. In Miami, Cornejo presents a monumental installation Conrad Bakker, Jason Salavon and which functions as a museum. Its form refers to the architecture of Cauleen Smith exhibit in Archival contemporary art museums, but Cornejo uses humble building materials Impulse at Gallery 400 in Chicago. such as corrugated sheet metal and eucalyptus logs.

14 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 Year End Report 15 Coming Up: 2012

CREATIVE CAPITAL WILL Expanded Services ORGANIZATIONAL WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY BEGIN 2012 WITH A BANG! For All Grantees MILESTONES PREMIERES OF CREATIVE CAPITAL PROJECTS IN 2012, INCLUDING: We will announce the 46 projects All grantees will be able to take In January and February, staff will Ben Marcus’s (2009 Literature) awarded Film/Video and Visual advantage of new artist services: continue to host information sessions The Flame Alphabet will be published Arts grants on January 12. These to help Emerging Fields, Literature by Knopf. artists will benefit from our incredible Phone-in clinics for financial, tech, and Performing Arts applicants resources, a nationwide network of PR, business and legal advice offer prepare their Letters of Inquiry for lauren woods (2008 Visual Arts) will professionals ready to advise them artists the opportunity to speak our 2013 grants. premiere Fountains at Dallas County and our enhanced system of artist with experts in a variety of fields to Records Building. support. get support for their professional On February 1, the application practices. for 2013 grants opens to artists Richard Pell’s (2009 Emerging Fields) nationwide. Center for PostNatural History will open Enhanced Services O rganizational partnerships provide in Pittsburgh. For Incoming Grantees opportunities beyond Creative Capital’s Creative Capital will be featured offerings, including crowdfunding for the second time in a Harvard Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis (2009 Our 2012 grantee class will enter an and fiscal sponsorship, group rates Business School case study! Performing Arts) will premiere Stuck enhanced artist services program from for insurance or health care, and Elevator at The International Festival of the start: information about residencies, teaching Beginning with Sundance in January, Arts & Ideas in New Haven, CT. opportunities and other resources. Creative Capital staff and grantees P roject support teams for each new participate in festivals coast-to- Robert Karimi (2009 Performing Arts) funded project, consisting of a staff Focused gatherings facilitate peer- coast, from TED to the College Art will premiere The Cooking Show. member, artist mentors, discipline- to-peer interaction for exploring Association, from the Armory Show specific arts professionals, and collaborations, networking, in New York to Louisville IdeaFestival. Naeem Mohaiemen (2008 Visual Arts) experts and entrepreneurs relevant work presentations or learning will premiere Young Man Was… to the project. Each team will work opportunities featuring a speaker. In July, we’ll welcome 250 members in Dhaka, Bangladesh. with the grantee to make a Project of the Creative Capital community to Plan and create a Professional Skills the Artist Retreat at Williams College Braden King’s (2005 Film/Video) Toolkit tailored to help achieve the New Program For in Williamstown, MA. Guests include HERE will be released in theaters by artist’s vision. Alumni Grantees 2009 and 2012 grantees, curators Strand Releasing. and performing arts programmers, Team meetings will take place The Creative Capital Loan Fund for PDP leaders, consultants and Leighton Pierce’s (2008 Film/Video) during grantees’ first year working the Performing Arts was launched journalists from around the world. Agency of Time will premiere at the with Creative Capital, beginning to offer short-term loans to all past University of Michigan in conjunction with orientation in January and grantees who are working on a new Stay tuned for more in 2012! Visit with the Ann Arbor Film Festival. continuing through the summer project with a performance component. our website (www.creative-capital.org), Artist Retreat and beyond, as This program is funded by The Andrew read our new blog The Lab Steve Cuiffo, Trey Lyford and Geoff grantees follow up on the ideas W. Mellon Foundation. (blog.creative-capital.org) and follow us Sobelle (2009 Performing Arts) will generated and connections forged on Facebook and Twitter (@creativecap) premiere Elephant Room at St. Ann’s at the Retreat. to get all the latest news. Warehouse in Brooklyn.

16 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 Year End Report 17 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2011

OFFICERS MEMBERS Suzi Keats Cordish Sunny Bates (New York) John Morning (New York) Chair (Maryland) President and Founder, Sunny Graphic Designer Arts advocate Bates Associates; Connector Deborah Rappaport (California) Lyda Kuth William K. Bowes Jr. (California) CEO, Skyline Public Works; “The impact of Creative Capital’s Treasurer (Massachusetts) Founding Partner, President, Rappaport Family support...is unmatched. The Executive Director, U.S. Venture Partners Foundation LEF Foundation impact was truly remarkable in Ed Colloton (New York) Stephen Reily (Kentucky) that it made the project happen Ronald Feldman Managing Partner and COO, Founder and CEO, AND gave it a life beyond the Secretary (New York) Bessemer Venture Partners Vibrant Nation; initial creation...Creative Capital’s Co-Director, Ronald Chairman and CEO, continued commitment to the Feldman Fine Arts Peter Gelles / Eve Steele IMC Licensing artist’s professional development (California) is impressive.” Ruby Lerner Chair, InterCounsel / Architect James Schamus ex officio, President (New York) Miguel Gutierrez (New York) Archibald L. Gillies CEO, Focus Features “[PDP] has been an absolutely (2009 Performing Arts) President and Executive emeritus (Maine) immeasurable experience for me. Director, Creative Capital Former President, The Andy Warhol Jeffrey Soros (California) It has widened my scope on the Foundation for the Visual Arts President, Considered possibilities for my own career Joel Wachs Entertainment and expanded my art community. ex officio (New York) Lisa Heller (New York) The support I have received here President, The Andy Vice President, Catharine R. Stimpson Warhol Foundation for HBO Documentaries (New York) I will pass on to peers and to the Visual Arts University Professor and Dean the arts community as a whole.” Lewis Hyde (Ohio) Emerita, Graduate School of Writer Arts and Science, NYU PDP Workshop Participant at Arthouse in Austin, TX Colleen Jennings-Roggensack Michael Stipe (Georgia) (Arizona) Singer/songwriter, “I’ve been able to grow, immensely, Executive Director, ASU artist, film producer as an artist, a filmmaker and a Gammage, Arizona State professional during this filmmaking University Paige West (New York) process due to the type of funding Founder, Mixed Greens Richard Linklater (Texas) and vote of confidence that Film writer/director, Fred Wilson (New York) Creative Capital provides. Retreats Detour Productions Artist have been amazing...I heart Creative Capital!!!” Creative Capital receives support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis, the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Julie Wyman the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, (2008 Film/Video) The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Booth Ferris Foundation, the Muriel Pollia Foundation, the William K. Bowes, Jr. Foundation, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros, and more than 150 other Image credits (top to bottom, left to right): Cover Alan Gilbert, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Eve Sussman, institutional and individual donors, in addition to support from the Kresge Foundation and Los Angeles Poverty Department; Page 2 Mason Bates/Anne Patterson, Cauleen Smith; Page 4 Jomama Jones; the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the Professional Development Program. Page 5 Deb Olin Unferth; Page 6 Sam Van Aken, Rude Mechs; Page 7 Ledoh, Rebecca Solnit; Page 8 Futurefarmers, SuttonBeresCuller; Page 9 Anayansi Prado; Page 10 Jae Rhim Lee, Kalup Linzy; Page 11 Elena del Rivero, Steve Cuiffo/Trey Lyford/Geoff Sobelle; Page 12 Secos & Mojados; Page 13 Pablo Helguera, PDP workshop; Page 14 Naeem Mohaiemen, Hasan Elahi, Suzan Pitt; Page 15 Stephanie Rothenberg, Cesar Cornejo; Page 19 Braden King, Ben Marcus, Mark Shepard, Nick Cave; Back Cover Marshall Curry/Sam Cullman, Kenseth Armstead, Trimpin. 18 CREATIVE CAPITAL EMPOWERING ARTISTS 2011 Year End Report 19 “Creative Capital’s support has been huge!...Where previously I had only metaphor, now I have actuality.”

Richard Pell (2009 Emerging Fields)

“The impact of Creative Capital on my project has gone from incalculable to astonishing. To me, knowing that the support is there, even for routine expenses, has completely liberated me to push harder with my project and try more things.”

Ben Marcus (2009 Literature) “Creative Capital support has been invaluable to the development of my career in the last three years. It has “The effects of this workshop will be been a God-send! Knowing that there huge. It’s a ripple effect—you’ve taken is advice and support beyond funding 55 artists and made us stronger, wiser has been critical.” and more competent. You’ve proven to

us that we can do whatever we put our Jennie C. Jones hearts and minds to.” (2008 Visual Arts) PDP Artists Summer Institute Participant

“The support of Creative Capital is so important to me as an artist, making me think of not just the project but my life as an artist.”

Billy Luther “I am much more of a businesswoman (2008 Film/Video) than I ever was, and I have been able to produce two NYC seasons because of Creative Capital. I cannot thank you enough. Creative Capital helped make my dream come true and forged a path for me that was unexpected and deliciously exciting.” 65 Bleecker St. 7th Fl. New York NY 10012 Heidi Latsky www.creative-capital.org (2009 Performing Arts)